Apple’s double standards: Big brother Apple bans comic book

Apple has done it yet again. This time it has banned a comic book from its App Store. The reason this time is the violent nature of the comic book.

The comic Murderdrome, was created by Infuriouscomics specially for the iPhone. Apple has turned down their application to put the book in the App Store because it finds it offensive in its ‘reasonable opinion’. What the …. ?

What about the movies available on the App Store that belong to the horror or slasher category? In fact why should the App Store have movies of this genre at all? Horror/slasher movies always seem to offend someone. For instance the movie Apocalypto is full of blood and gore but its still on the App Store? So why these double standards Apple?

Looks like Apple has constituted a censor board of sorts that is responsible for the release of movies on App Store. And this censor board is doing a very lousy job. There are a whole bunch of R-rated movies available for download. So why ban this comic book?

I am not a big fan of violent movies or comics but I am against this kind of policing. After all I should have the independence of watching anything that I like that can be acquired through legal means. Apple does not seem to subscribe to this view. Its policy of inspecting applications for malicious code is still understandable, but movie sensorship????????????????? Naaah. Utterly distasteful.

What’s next? Banning Frank Zappa’s marvelous songs because of indecent language that Apple finds offensive in its ‘reasonable opinion’?